photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce a new image by Tom Chambers from his Illumination Series titled What Was That World. Read the blog post on this series here. More of Chamber's work can be viewed here.

To reserve a print of What Was That World in the first price tier, please email photo-eye Gallery Associate Director Anne Kelly or call (505) 988-5152 x202.

Tom Chambers first book Entropic Kingdom is also currently available for pre-order through photo-eye. Preorder a copy here.

photo-eye will be opening a pop-up book store at FotoFest 2012 in Houston at the Meeting Place at the DoubleTree Hotel. In addition to a wide selection of in-print, out-of-print and sale books, photo-eye will also be hosting a number of book signings. Located at the FotoFest Meeting Place portfolio reviews, the photo-eye store will be open from 1-5pm during the three review sessions, March 16th to April 3rd and is open to the public. See a the book signing schedule below:

For those not in Houston, we are also opening up back orders for signed copies of the books listed above. If you're interested in purchasing a signed copy of one of these books, back order now to assure your copy — quantities are limited and will likely sell out quickly.

Photobook rarities on offer this week include Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau's Les Erotiques du Regard; Tony Ray-Jones' A Day Off, a rare signed copy of Roll, Jordan, Roll with photographs by Doris Ullman, Walker Evans' Message From the Interior and more! Be sure to watch Eric Miles' presentation below. More great books coming this Saturday!

We are now accepting consignments of fine photobooks and prints. Be sure to contact Eric Miles if you have material you'd like us to consider. See our auction F.A.Q for guidelines.

"Kate Breakey is best known for her graceful hand-painted silver gelatin photographs of flowers and birds. Hand colored with oil paint and colored pencils, each print is a unique work of art, none are exactly alike. Breakey's work exhibits a delicate attentiveness to the fine details of her subjects, beautifully lit and portrayed. These images have been collected in two books from the University of Texas Press, Small Deaths and Painted Light, but a new book of Breakey's work, Slowlight from Etherton Gallery shows a different side of the photographer's work. A collection of landscapes shot over 30 years of her career, the images in Slowlight offer a different side of Breakey's photographic vision,
but captured with the same beautiful subtlety." — Anne Kelly

"Richard Misrach's Desert Cantos is certainly one of the most celebrated bodies of work by an American photographer in the past 30 years. It is series that I continually look to. I am impressed at how many times Misrach has successfully changed his approach and evolved as an artist since photographing such an epic tale. For the viewer, his new book published by Blind Spot is a revisitation to Misrach's style of documenting the deterioration of a human imprint on a landscape. It's beautiful in its sadness and is an eye-opening reminder at how life can change in an instant." — Antone Dolezal

"In several years of working at used book shops, I amassed an intriguing collection of things that fell from the pages of discarded books - photographs, ticket stubs, letters, newspaper clippings, receipts, pressed flowers, among other oddities. Tucked away for safe keeping, these items are forgotten treasures, the discovery of which was always a special moment, an intimate view of the previous owner." — Sarah Bradley from the review of Box - Pass It On by Peng Yangjun & Chen Jiaojiao

"I am not an expert on Norwegian Black Metal. This review will deal strictly with the book True Norwegian Black Metal, as I read and processed it over a number of days. Clearing my mind in this manner gave me the space to think about the work, and just the work, on the printed pages. It is not the music or the musicians, but Peter Beste's interpretation of them that I am coming to grips with." — Tom Leininger from the review of True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste

Norihisa Hosaka: Burning Chrome"I usually take city landscape photographs by using HDRI (high dymanic range image) technique expressing brilliant light all over Tokyo like Shinjuku, Shibuya and Akihabara etc. City lights is one of the perfect artificial beauty in this modern age. It is always beautiful and impressive if Tokyo holds many power to lit lights." — the publisher READ MORE

First Wednesday's April Salon will be held on April 4th, 2012, with the salon running from 6:30pm to 9pm. Photographers Alex Emmons and Steve Fitch will be presenting work. Fitch will show his work documenting motel signs, drive-in theatres and other emblems of vernacular highway culture. His exhibition Highway Culture is currently on display at photo-eye Gallery. Emmons will feature work from her series House and Garden, a series of cyanotype images that record objects and plants in the ubiquitous, present-day backyard. This work is currently on display at the Marion Center of Photographic Arts at Santa Fe University of Art & Design.